Quotes About Children

Don't teach children about wealth, but teach them about love and kindness, then they'll change the world.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing known for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

There isn't an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why? Why not?

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

Despite the fact that he fathered ten children, Dickens, the write, never gave up his position as a child. He identified with children and with the child-like - those who are not in power and who suffer under the fickle and often sadistic demands of those who are.

Fathers are essentially different from mothers because we were all once in our mother's bodies, are born out of those bodies, and as infants take food from them. Paternity is more distant and less direct than maternity; it's a claim we accept as children, one inscribed in our legitimate, that is, legal, names.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

Yeah, I definitely want to find that right person and fall in love and have kids someday.

I love kids, but they are a tough audience.

Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime

children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

I have four kids - they're 19 to 33 - that I love more than anything.

If only one little unhappy child is made happy with the love of Jesus,...will it not be worth...giving all for that?

I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.

We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.

You know, I want to eat junk food. My kids love junk food.

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

You can't plan the kind of deep love that results in children. Fatherhood was not a conscious decision. It was part of the wonderful ride I was on. All the math finally worked.

I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

Love is for children. I owe him a debt.

I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.